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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 16h

I'm not a teen in their demographic, but Teen Vogue's political and social journalism had been excellent for decades, so it's galling to see them simply bought out, laid off and folded into the oligarchical propaganda system.

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 16h

They got Teen Vogue; bought out and laid off to cease the good journalism:

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 18h

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 16h

What do you mean non fungible? Have you seen what fungi can eat? Everything is fungible to them. There's even that motherfucker of a slime mould living on the _inside_ of the Chernobyl Sarcophagus that can photosynthesise hard gamma, apparently.

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 16h

It's worse than that, it's something Kiwi's put together from what was lying around in the Ministry of Works and the Railways yards.

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 2d

When an antique spirit stove that was neither a Primus or an Optimus, and thus a brand with a reputation for blowing up in your face, blows up in your face, the only sensible response is to turn it's corpse into a silly robot:

A '50s era positive feedback loop spirit stove that has ruptured in a fuel explosion at the base of the tank, modified with the addition of googly eyes and the reversal of the pot supports into legs, to be come a steampunk robot.

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 2d

Long Lost Elder Brother!

Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 2d

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Charlton automatic rifle - Wikipedia

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 2d

Mind you, the same attitude led to the modification of Long Tom Lee Enfields from the 1914 purchase of Obsolete rifles from Canada (our govt was always cheapskate) into an actually functional light machine gun that worked well enough that it would have done the job we'd usually need Bren guns for.

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 2d

High manganese corrugated steel roofing iron. It may stop rifle bullets. Same stuff that the chonkier sort of Quonset and Nissen huts are built from.

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 2d

For one of the gunners. Driver actually had a seat.

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Zane Bruce @iarnulfr.bsky.social · 2d

At the time, the bulk of our army and materiel were in North Africa, but the advent of the Japanese Pacific Campaign meant that everyone was worried we'd lose Australia, and have to fight locally against a Japanese expeditionary force, so it sort of made sense.

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